Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.